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PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Macro to determine subsystem name of the current PIF-session in Cobol

Programms (Cobol) communicating with IWS via PIF and allocated EQQYPARM-file do not have access to the subsystem name. The internal BIB-block stores or point to this data. However this block ist not documented.
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Netcool WebGUI unable to delete the last filter in a group or user

Hi team, We are unable to delete the last filter in a group or user. Please find the attached screenshot FYI. AS Filter “X_System_ALL_Groups” is a only single filter associated with the group (s ) Hence the application is not allowing to remove. B...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Scrolling API support for Message Bus probe

The only method available in MCP R4.0 to handle an alarm query which returns results greater than 10,000 records is to utilise the scrolling capability.The current version (10) of the Message Bus supports pagination - however there is a restrictio...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

WAS LDAP userFilter and groupFilter settings to be added to a Config Map so that changes to the settings will be kept on a restart.

Customer has set up NOI and WebGUI on a hybrid environment. They configured their LDAP settings but would now like to change them. There is no option for this. If there was an available setting in a Config Map these could be used and maintained a...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

To update observer to support from v1 version of Dynatrace to v2 version to reduce the stress on Dynatrace infrastructure

When executing Dynatrace observation on Dynatrace environment, we detected several disconnections by Dynatrace users. By using Dynatrace v2 API it is possible to reduce the impact
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Display VMware hierarchy in Data Management Tool

Our users want to explore from Virtual Machine to ESX host and/or VMware cluster to VMwar Data Center to Virtual Center managing environment. Currently there is no link from ESX server to clusters or to Virtual Center.
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

License Compliance for Cloud Pak for Automation for Prod and Non-Prod env based on entitlement ratios

So, License Compliance advisor needs to provide the compliance status based on the below deployment criteria: Prod vs Non-Prod: : Cloud Pak for Automation is charged differently for production vs non-product environments. Also there ...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 2 Not under consideration

We need to be able to identify instantly where any IP address in our network is physically connected, without having to scan and discover the entire IPaddress space

This is required by our ISOC teams to be able to respond fast in case of virus or other malicious activities in our global network. Currently due to the heterogenous complexity of the network it can take hours or days to get to the right place and...
almost 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Future consideration

Dismantle Related Event Grouping with lesser children

Any property or configuration that we can use to "Restrict Related Event Grouping, Parent Synthetic Alarm " not to create Group if it has lesser number of children's ( typically 1 or 2) same as SEG minimumchildren property.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

SEG to allow nested conditions with OR, AND

SEG (Scope Based Grouping) can be more powerful and flexible if it can also support Nested Condition e.g (Class = 190876 AND (X733SpecificProbe like 'hi' or AlertGroup like 'Temp') But in SeG webgui UI , it only allows either And/OR conditions but...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release